Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 19:34:37 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Mayo Jordanov <mayo@oyam.ca> Cc: remko@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/147082: [uart] Serial ports unusable Message-ID: <AANLkTil7Y_Yb500zXHilLvHlmpRfDMaJZP_UffNURKmk@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <008FD1A4-F1AB-4683-A3A6-6EAA3C0AECED@oyam.ca> References: <201005261942.o4QJgacx011479@freefall.freebsd.org> <008FD1A4-F1AB-4683-A3A6-6EAA3C0AECED@oyam.ca>
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Mayo Jordanov <mayo@oyam.ca> wrote: > > On 2010-05-26, at 12:42 , remko@FreeBSD.org wrote: > >> Synopsis: [uart] Serial ports unusable >> >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >> State-Changed-By: remko >> State-Changed-When: Wed May 26 19:42:36 UTC 2010 >> State-Changed-Why: >> I send my working serial line to Mayo, set status to feedback >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147082 > > I'm gona re-reply here, to preserve the history. > >>>> How-To-Repeat: >>> 1) Edit /etc/ttys, do the ttyu0 line reads: >>> ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure >>> 2) kill -HUP 1 >>> 3) Try connecting to it with terminal application >> >> >> /etc/ttys >> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure >> >> /boot/loader.conf >> console="comconsole" >> >> That enabled serial access to my Soekris device running on FreeBSD8(PFsense), it also works for several remote machines I have. >> >> Can you confirm that you have these settings in loader.conf and rebooted?! >> >> -- >> /"\ Best regards, | remko@FreeBSD.org >> \ / Remko Lodder | remko@EFnet >> X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | >> / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News > > test# cat /boot/loader.conf > console="comconsole" > > looking at the /etc/ttys entry you pasted above, will that enable serial console? That looks like a regular console on the machine itself. > > I have rebooted numerous times, and I do get the kernel messages during boot on serial up to the point where getty starts (presumably... I see portion of the messages as nics are getting setup and then nothing). > > I have some machines where serial works fine, but I have some machines where it doesn't and behaves the same way as described above. If necessary, I can provide access to a troublesome machine. All of this is described in more grusome detail at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html . HTH, -Garrett
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